Installing your extension to test it

Written By Udaya Prakash

Last updated 7 days ago

Before you publish anything you will want to run your extension in your own browser. There are two ways.

Install to a folder, the quicker one

Open the download panel and choose Install. Pick a folder and click Install to Folder. Your extension is extracted straight there, with no zip to download and nothing to unpack.

Download a zip

Choose Download instead and you get a zip file. Unzip it wherever you like.

Loading it into Chrome

Either way, the next steps are the same:

  1. Open chrome://extensions/ in your address bar.

  2. Turn on Developer mode, top right.

  3. Click Load unpacked.

  4. Select the extension folder.

  5. Click the puzzle piece icon in your toolbar and pin the extension so you can reach it.

That is it. The extension is now running in your browser like any other.

If you want to change the code yourself

The zip includes a source/ folder with the source and the build config, so you can modify it and rebuild outside PlugThis.